Download or read book Origen's References to Heracleon written by Carl Johan Berglund and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of Christian exegesis are obscured by ancient authors' lack of differentiation between verbatim quotations, summaries, explanatory paraphrases, and mere assertions. Carl Johan Berglund discerns what we can know of Heracleon's literary-critical Gospel commentary from Origen's presuppositions of Gnostic heresies.